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Sonatas from Latin America

June 23, 2018, 7:00 pm

Paquito D'Rivera (Photo: Ricardo Rios)

The sonata is a musical term in use for almost four centuries. Latin American composers have also cultivated this venerable form. And on this program,Fiesta features an extravaganza of Latino sonatas, including music from Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina.

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Sonata No. 4- Fantasia, by Claudio Santoro
Ney Salgado, piano

Sonata, by Antonio Lauro
Jesus Castro Balbi, guitar

Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, by Carlos Guastavino
Paquito D’Rivera, clarinet; Pablo Zinger, piano

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Meet the Host

Composer, musician, and professor, Elbio Rodríguez Barilari was born in 1953 in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he studied at the Conservatório Universitario before continuing his education in Brazil at the Cursos Latinoamericanos de Música Contemporáne. Since settling in the United States in 1998, Barilari has lectured at the University of Chicago and the Instituto Cervantes. He is currently on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago.

As a composer, Barilari has received commissions from the Grant Park Music Festival, Concertante di Chicago, Chicago Park District, and Orquesta Filarmonica de Montevideo. In addition to works for orchestra, chamber ensembles and solo instruments, he has provided scores for more than forty plays in the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

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